Splash screen and gnuserv

From:

Lennart Borgman

Subject:

Splash screen and gnuserv

Date:

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:36:34 +0200

User-agent:

Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719)

I think there is a problem with the splash screen and gnuclient/server.
I do not know if this problem exists with emacsclient/server, but it
would be good if someone tested. Below is a description from a message
in help-emacs-windows. I believe this is enough to describe the problem.
I have tested this with

For example, I open a .txt file (bound to gnuclientw) from the Desktop,
Emacs comes up, shows the EmacsW32 splash page, and then the .txt file.
The status bar shows (V). I try the 'j' & 'k' movement keys and it
inserts characters. The odd thing now, is that I'm trying this as I type
this email in Outlook, so I'm switching back and forth and reopening the
file. In one test, I opened the file, switched to Outlook, switched back
and it worked?!? It seems like there was a delay in processing/entering
viper-mode. That may be why C-z or M-x viper-mode doesn't fix it
immediately and it seems like playing around with M-x does. I'm guessing
that whatever is causing the delay finally completes (5-10 seconds or
so).
Here is the *Messages* buffer after it starts working correctly.
(C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs\bin\emacs.exe --load=C:/Program
Files/Emacs/EmacsW32/bin/gnuservauto.el)
Loading encoded-kb...done
Adding c:/Program Files/Emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/ to load-path
Loading c:/Documents and Settings/dennyw/Application Data/.viper...done
Loading cl-macs...done
Loading cl-seq...done
Loading easy-mmode...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. [4
times]
forward-sentence: End of buffer
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Auto-saving...done
My first thought was gnuserv or viper mode, but I get the two "GNU
Project" messages while its still inserting characters. Is there some
other background process that's running?
Thanks
Denny

Hi Denny,

Thanks for testing. I can reproduce the error here now. I will try to
look into it.

It seems like this has something to do with the splash screen. If I turn
off the splash screen the problem disappears.

To turn off it do
M-x customize-option RET
Customize variable: inhibit-splash-screen
and then set inhibit-splash-screen to "on" and save the value.
Does the problem disappear for you if you do this?